nickfromseattle

Or Outlook.com, their free webmail alternative to Gmail?

In the long term Intuit is probably a $0 because you don't need TurboTax to file a UBI report.

Palmer Luckey. Many of the things he discusses, he brings an interesting angle I didn't think of, and has changed my opinion on numerous topics. Great orator.

A cool use case; you can tell ChatGPT voice to act as a translator. When they speak Spanish, translate it to English. When you speak English, translate it to Spanish.

Works pretty good.

I was an early employee at MigrationWiz (BitTitan), always cool to see recognition of the co in the wild.

Geeman, the founding CEO would have definitely sent a C&D immediately, but BitTitan was acquired by a PE firm and I don't find it hard to imagine nobody cares anymore. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1mnelca/migrationwiz_w...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1qnwkwl/do_not_use_bit...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1qswdub/bittitan_...

According to Binance, he owns 90%. Whether he is CEO or not probably doesn't prevent him from influencing Binance operations to support Trump's coin.

Physical exercise is wasteful compared to other things that can be done with ones time

The human body is meant to move much more than society in 2025 compels it to move. There are countless studies on health, mental health, longevity and quality of life that refute your statement.

What are the variables that prefer local GPUs vs cloud inference? Is connectivity the dividing line or are there other variables that influence the choice?

Anduril submersibles probably need local processing, but does my laundry/dishes robot need local processing? Or machines in factories? Or delivery drones?

A trick.

Archive.is --> URL you want to view --> https://archive.is/xaMbk

I don't have any info on your product, product category or skillset / interests to give you actionable advice.

But I have put together a list of marketing communities, blogs, and people that have a high signal / noise ratio for my coworkers and friends, perhaps it could be useful for you. [0]

[0] https://contentdistribution.slite.page/p/BFMS0Lg1Yz/Our-Favo...

This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'.

Nothing you post there is going to change your career.

I can attribute millions of dollars in revenue to LinkedIn, as can a lot of my 'LinkedIn friends'

Doing work that matters might.

This is a pre-requisite for winning on LinkedIn. The kind of content that performs best are strong opinions informed by actual expertise.

Go for depth over frequency.

Unfortunately that's not the way marketing works. 95% of your audience is not 'in-market' and ready to buy when they see your content. Sometime over the next 3-5 years they may move into a buying lifecycle, and they are much more likely to trust you, and therefore buy from you, if they've seen your content 1,000x vs a couple of long reads.

If writing online matters to you, you’re probably better off starting a blog and building things there.

Your long form, in-depth content lives on your blog, and your LinkedIn profile should act as a funnel, moving people from newsfeed --> your profile --> the most important piece of content you want them to read. From there, you can capture their email to touch them on another channel (inbox), push them to your YouTube / Twitter / community, etc.

With that said, while LinkedIn is responsible for a significant % of my total revenue, it's also responsible for a significant % of my anxiety. Building in public invites folks to publicly blast you if they don't agree with your ideas. 'Getting ratio'd' happens. LinkedIn eventually becomes a mentally exhausting slog. But as a career driven individual the upside has been very high and I think the trade off was worth it. I would do it again knowing everything I know now.

What is the right amount of spending?

I am 'dumb money', but my understanding is the 'smart money' thinks the sustainable target deficit is 3% of GDP, and we're currently running at 6%. [0]

[0] https://time.com/7221862/ray-dalio-cut-the-budget-deficit/

I built a Facebook group / community of my target market.

0. Created Facebook Group

1. Optimized my FB profile as a landing page for this community

2. Join all of the other similar groups

3. Send friend reqs to prominent members in other groups

4. Post statuses on personal profile / in FB group creating value for this audience

5. Funnel / invite people into the FB group

Launched 2 products, both failed, but the community came through for me.

#1: Got to $14k MRR in 8 months

#2: Sold ~30 annual subscriptions with a PPT pre-launch

My weight is stable but each time I go to US for a couple of weeks I bring back 3-5 extra kilos

I live in Spain and visit the US yearly, here are my thoughts:

A) "Being on vacation" and eating / drinking a bit more loosely than I do at home.

B) Significant reduction in walking. In Spain I average 60 minutes/day on the low end, and often at 90-120 minutes/day. In the USA, it's maybe 30 minutes.

I've seen no justification for the government deciding that from 2022 on we should actively discourage R&D, it just seems to be a mistake.

My understanding is that this was done in order to balance the tax bill passed by the Trump admin due to a requirement to be budget neutral. Cut tax revenue here, increase tax revenue there.

I run a company with almost 100% of the staff located in Europe. Because of this, everyone has 38 days of PTO with some people taking even more unpaid time off. This means everyone is always out of office. We also have a very significant amount of process documentation, and like you alluded to, means significant resiliency. When someone is gone, the work carries on as normal.

My conversations with non-tech friends and family indicates non-tech people don't like AI because of the perception that it will negatively impact their jobs / career, and ability to pay bills. This makes sense to me. 54% of Americans have below a 6th grade reading level, these folks will not be orchestrating AI agents, they will be replaced by AI agents.

Search is one of the best ways for startups to compete against incumbents. AI will prioritize known / most popular brands. Want to start an alternative to QuickBooks? Using search you could get hundreds of thousands of people on your website. In the future? AI will recommend QuickBooks.

Rocket Lab did ~$123m/quarter in Q1 and ~$400m in 2024 [0], while this article claims, "Around $130 million in annual revenue."

I don't think it's Rocket Lab.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/RKLB/rocket-lab-us...

Note, Google also uses user interaction data from Chrome to influence the search results. [0]

[0] https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-user-interaction-...

How much blame do we assign Sundar for this outcome? Yes, he was just continuing where Larry / Sergey left off, but it did happen under his watch.

Is there anything he could have done to avoid this outcome? In a way that Google shareholders would have found acceptable?

Or was this outcome inevitable?

An extended family member worked on using lasers to launch payloads to orbits. [0]

Here's a quick video demonstrating the technology, using lasers to lift a small prototype several meters, back in, what I believe is the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81f3LifpWY

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leik_Myrabo

American, lived 100m from the Danube for 4 years while in Belgrade, Serbia. One of my life goals is to boat across Europe. Hopefully in something bigger than a canoe, but we'll see.

Serbia has the 5th highest amount of civilian guns per capita. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

I worked at a company that expired credits after 365 days. My layman understanding is the credits sit as a liability until consumed, and the alternative is having potentially millions accounts with a combined hundreds of millions of dollars in 'liabilities' on their books.

More info from ChatGPT here: https://chatgpt.com/share/67c5ad36-2f84-8001-a61f-11d4e17135...

Side question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok?

Are they demoing API capabilities, or moving up the stack due to low moat for foundation models?

I was talking to I believe an FB engineer and this must have been 10+ years ago at this point, he said,

- FB found restricting access was difficult because engineers do sometimes bump into incidental user data while doing their job

- And engineers, being sufficiently motivated, can find a way around security measures

- So instead of reducing productivity with ineffective security measures, FB logs all access to private user info, and a separate team will request a reason, and if you don't have a 100% legitimate work related reason to be viewing it, you're terminated immediately

- And it does occasionally happen

- And best practice if you might incidentally see private user data is to do it on an FB profile of a dev friend also working at FB

But if you don’t know how to create products that people want, market it, have funding for it and not get crushed by a larger company that can throw a team at it, you won’t be successful.

Yes, but you can keep trying. In entrepreneurship, you only need to be right once. Most successful entrepreneurs have had failed startups and projects before they got it right.

The whole idea of if you work really hard you are guaranteed success gives too many people unrealistic hope

It's not guaranteed, but it's the best system to get what you want, that we have.

As a nerdy, middle class, white guy, I and many of my male friends have been arrested between ages 18 - 25. Usually for drinking underage, public intoxication, or small amounts of marijuana.